September 11, 2001. I was living in Gainesville, Florida. I took the student bus from student housing in the SE quadrant of Gainesville into campus almost daily (to the library, as I prepared for Grad School entrance exams). There were signs put up above the bus driver's seat, depicting students standing in a staggered line formation. Underneath the photo of the Orange and Blue adorned students was this statement: On September 11 there will be a "free pass" day and no bus passes or tickets are needed. This is to celebrate..."" (I can't remember the excuse that was written for the waiver of passes or tickets--only on that one day, and this sign had been put up at least two or three weeks even prior to September 11, 2001. If you can connect this to any other conceptual notion of how prepared the University of Florida was for a potential disaster planning event......And by the way, there never was prior or since a "free day" for riding the bus in Gainesville as long as I lived in that city.